All Events

Historical Events on August 25

  • War of 1812

    1814

    War of 1812: On the second day of the Burning of Washington, British troops torch the Library of Congress, United States Treasury, Department of War, and other public buildings.

  • World War I

    1914

    World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.

  • Polish-Soviet War

    1920

    Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.

  • World War II

    1940

    World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.

  • Harry Truman

    1950

    President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.

  • Zimbabwe

    1980

    Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.

  • Belarus

    1991

    Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.

  • Aaliyah

    2001

    American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.

  • Hurricane Harvey

    2017

    Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. The storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 90 people and causing $198.6 billion in damage.

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Famous Birthdays on August 25

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Famous Deaths on August 25

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